Climate Change

The Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the state Department of Environmental Quality are sharing in $1.1 million in federal grants to assess coastal wetlands and their ability to protect Virginians against the impacts of rising sea level and climate change.

The Wetland Program Development Grants are awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

"The need for coastal wetlands is becoming even more important in the face of climate change and rising sea levels," Shawn M. Garvin, administrator for EPA's mid-Atlantic Region, said Thursday at VIMS in Gloucester Point in announcing the grants.

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